With more than 70 million Android tablets activated, the market is certainly thriving, and many of those are larger 7-inch and 10-inch models. Google Play has now launched a “designed for tablets” section to help tablet users better identify which apps have been developed with those more powerful devices and bigger screens in mind. A number of apps featured in the section have already grown in popularity as a result. One in particular, Remember the Milk, has seen an increase in downloads by 83 percent since being listed there.
Starting next month, Google Play will make a number of changes that will allow users to find these apps with more ease. The update will take place on November 21. First and foremost, the update will allow users to seek out apps and games made specifically for these larger tablets through a number of categories, including Top Paid, Top Free, Top Grossing, Top New Paid, Top New Free and Trending.
If preferred, users can still look up general apps and games without going into these categories. However, those apps that do not fit the “designed for tablets” criteria will instead be classified as “designed for phones.”
App developers can find the list of criteria to earn the “designed for tablets” moniker at this link.
Source: Android Developers
